Professor Yu Dan

Topic: Confucius From Prof Yu Dan's Heart

Abstract
With a view to taking the wisdom of Confucius out of the hands of the academics and the philosophers and making it accessible to the general reader, "Confucius From the Heart" gives us a contemporary Confucius, one who can teach us how to attain spiritual happiness, adjust our daily routines and find our place in modern life. Yu Dan argues that his sayings, or Analects - far from being merely interesting quotes from ancient lore, of little use in our hectic, stress-filled world. Instead, they are simple truths that can speak to each and every one of us and help us lead better, happier, calmer lives.

Biography
Yu Dan is a professor with Beijing Normal University. After her unique way of analyzing the ancient Chinese classic of The Analects before a TV audience, she shot to fame almost overnight. Sales of her book 《于丹〈論語〉心得》 surpassed 4.2 million within a short period of publication and later was translated to different languages including Korean and Japanese. Its readers ranged from grey-haired senior citizens to teenagers, from white collar workers to housewives.

Professor Yu also holds strategist/researcher positions in a roster of mass media groups such as China Television Artists Association, China Visual Association's Tertiary Arts committee, China Visual Association's Research Group, CCTV's Research Office, China News Research Group, China-Guangdong Research Institute, China-Guangdong Institute Legal Programs Committee, News Corp (Australia), etc..